Submitted by: Jane Stephens Rhem
STEPHENS, WILLIAM
Surnames: STEPHENS
My gg-grandfather, William Stephens, with wife, Martha Cobb and their first two
sons, Wallace and John Moses...left Calhoun County (Benton Co.) Alabama
following the Civil War in 1866. They travelled by wagon for 2 months and
arrived at Ft. Sullivan, Texas in December of 1866. They settled in Falls County
near Marlin where they farmed and raised livestock. William died at at
Rosebud in 1917. He had been with the 51st AL Cavalry - Co. D...and was
imprisoned at Ft. Delaware. His biography is found in "Early Settlers of the
Lone Star State"..He was a member of Odd Fellows. His son John Moses was my
ggrandfather..and his son R.W. was my grandfather. My father was Roger William
Stephens, born in Marlin in 1910...a decorated WWII veteran who flew as radio
man in the B-17 bomber in the south pacific. The radio call sign "Roger" was for
my father... a code developed between the radio operators. When he retired from
the Air Force, my father went to work with the space program at the Cape in
Florida in 1957 and was instrumental in the installation of the down range
communications system used in tracking the launches from the Cape. He died in
1966.
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